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Is artificial-womb technology a tool for women’s liberation?
While some women experience pregnancy and childbirth as joyful, natural and fulfilling, others find themselves recoiling in horror at the physical demands
This flu season is especially bad. Researchers might have developed a...
A nanoparticle influenza vaccine developed at Georgia State University proved effective in mice
World’s oldest forest found in New York state
Research of site specimens suggests that the forebearers to modern plants evolved much earlier than expected.
Nuclear-powered Mars rover to search for old life, prepare for human...
Provided it gets through the launch, the orbital manuevers, maintains communications, doesn't suffer from glitches and makes a successful landing, we're in for some really cool discoveries
How do flames behave in zero-gravity? Strangely, NASA study shows
Astronauts are very excited to be playing with fire in space
Legalized marijuana linked to lower opioid abuse; death rates
Medical Professionals and our representatives should honor science instead of lobbying and marketing efforts by pharmaceutical companies
5 neuroscience reality checks, from a top neuroscientist
Consciousness, a phenomenon responsible for your ability to read and understand these words, often feels like a given
Garjainia put the ‘hyper’ in ‘hypercarnviore’
There are lots of animals from this period of time that were bizarre and interesting but we don't know much about them at all.
Mars 2020 will hunt for ‘microfossils’, signs of ancient alien life
The discovery of past life on Mars would be revolutionary
6 video games that can help older players focus and relax
Some games have been found to improve the health of senior players diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
Despite almost no research, the pet CBD industry will grow to...
Just because it makes YOU feel good, doesn't mean it's good for the dog
Consider the axolotl: Our great hope of regeneration?
the writer Aldous HUxley, adopted the axolotl as a metaphor for mankind, its peculiar neoteny an emblem of our incompletion, our frustrated potentiality.
Mars 2020 will hunt for ‘microfossils’, signs of ancient alien life
Finding signs of life on Mars would finally settle the longstanding question: Is Earth the only planet capable of supporting life?
Why Nikola Tesla was obsessed with the Egyptian pyramids
In 1905, Tesla filed a patent in the U.S. titled "The art of transmitting electrical energy through the natural medium,"
6 video games that can help older players focus and relax
Yeah, relax. Video games do anything but relax me.
A comet ‘burps’ as a satellite watches the whole thing
Comet 46P/Wirtanen has gas, and TESS was there to see it
15 holiday gift ideas for space fans and future astronauts
Cool Geeky Gifts! How about some space socks?
Scientists find a new way to measure gravity
Scientists use lasers that suspend atoms in air to measure gravity.
Prove or disprove: A Nobel Prize winner’s approach to science
Do you know how the scientific method works? This Nobel Laureate does.
10 great physics courses you can take online right now, for...
If you can't attend the Launchpad Astronomy workshop, you might try one of these courses
New theory explains the light from black holes and neutron stars
Where's the light from black holes coming from? Gravity, scientists say.
Anatomical quirks: 10 things you didn’t know about your body
You may not know these things about yourself.
Anatomical quirks: 10 things you didn’t know about your body
Though we've learn a lot about ourselves in the last two centuries, it's still clear there's much we don't know.
What if your TV shows were way, way smarter? Enter CuriosityStream.
CuriosityStream - coming close to Murrow's idea of what television ought to be
‘One among millions’: DNA is not the only genetic molecule
New research suggests that there could be millions of DNA-like structures supporting life.
Insects on Mars? Ohio scientist claims NASA images show life on...
I think they live next to the Face on Mars, but, your mileage may vary. (We're desperate to find evidence of life there, but that's no excuse for "woo-woo")
Scientists create precursor to life in thermal vent experiment
Experiment supports the idea that precursors of life formed around hydrothermal vents